re the 'status' of the nearby territory between 1900 and '48. The Brits have parcelled out land in many other areas of the world too, when the Raj was rampant.

There's a precedent for these (ever arbitrary) divisions eventually being accepted. Note how artificial are our own boundaries. Exception: people living on an island; but - there's Haiti and Santo Domingo! so.. no exceptions.

It's too late to erase '48 - and that was just THREE years after.. people walked into Belsen and Auschwitz and Maidanek and Dachau, Treblinka, etc. Undoubtedly a major factor in deciding: I mean, what MORE impetus than a holocaust (??) might suggest either,

1) (Our usual) Flush the problem down the toilet: finish the genocide, OR

2) Give these people a place where they might be somewhat safe from 'us'.

I'd prefer to believe that #1 was never seriously contemplated, even if it WAS 'contemplation' by homo-sap.



Ashton